Introduction
The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library), OpenCL (Open Computing Language) and OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API.
LWJGL is not meant to make writing games particularly easy; it is primarily an enabling technology which allows developers to get at resources that are simply otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing Java platform. We anticipate that the LWJGL will, through evolution and extension, become the foundation for more complete game libraries and "game engines" as they have popularly become known, and hide some of the new evils we have had to expose in the APIs.
LWJGL is available under a BSD license, which means it's open source and freely available at no charge.
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News
LWJGL 2.8.3 Monday, January 23rd, 2012
First release in the new year. New OpenGL and OpenCL additions as well as some important MacOSX fixes. Please update ASAP.
Get it at the usual location
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.8.2 Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Bugfix release + some minor features. Get it at the usual location
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.8.1 Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Bugfix release + some minor features. Get it at the usual location
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.8.0 Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Finally a new release! This is a pretty big update with a slew of new features as well of bug fixes. Get it at the usual location
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.7.1 Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Minor update. Updated OpenAL-Soft libraries to fix an msvrt90.dll dependency - get it at the usual location
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.7 Monday, February 7th, 2011
2.7 has just been hatched - get it at the usual location
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.6 Monday, October 18th, 2010
On top of the world again! - fresh out with a new 2.6 build which includes lots of fixes and new stuff - including OpenCL support!
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.
LWJGL 2.5 Friday, July 16th, 2010
To hot outside? - get inside, switch on the AC unit - and start hacking away with the latest LWJGL release.
Please check this thread for more info regarding the release.